Using her book as a backdrop, Professor Conaway discusses black women intellectuals in the 19th century--women whose work had been undervalued and/or overlooked for more than one hundred years. Their theories on black liberation, the tasks of black women in a liberated society, the cult of True Womanhood, etc. are remarkable in their breadth and depth. (University of Vermont Press 2007)

Speaker:

Carol Conaway

Carol Conaway is an associate professor communication at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include mass communication and gender studies. She received the The Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize for best anthology for her anthology about African American women's history, Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds. This prize is awarded annually by the Association of Black Women Historians.